Worker preparing earth canals for irrigating fields where maize will be cultivated - - CERCI (Experimental Centre of Rice and Irrigated Crops): BKF/81/001. CERCI (Experimental Centre of Rice and Irrigated Crops) was created in 1973 with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Its objective was to establish a programme of applied ag